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Hello Bleemme, Great post. Yesterday I was told by the navy recruiter that currently the navy only recruits BSN only from NLN and CCNE. The navy does not recruit BSN. And the reserve will recruit MSN. Please let us know if you have links that say otherwise. I am an ADN-RN and currently in a MSN program. I am considering to alter my academic planning so I can join military nursing.

Hello All, I've been offered an Intake RN position at a home health agency and I was wondering: 1. If any of you can elaborate more on this in additional to thread https://allnurses.com/home-health-nursing/question-about-intake-185201.html. They explained to me that, rather than going out there on the field doing my 30 visits/week, an intake RN is entirely stationed in the office 5 days a week, with benefits, insurance, and vacation, to talk to doctors (and/or insurance companies). 2. What's the pay range for an Intake RN? The company's based in SGV, CA. They explained to me that they need someone with a license to fill this position, and the pay range for nurses at this company goes from $21 - $35 (service supervisor). Being relatively new, I don't expect myself getting the $35 right off the bat but this is still a big stretch! My goal is to position myself somewhere in the middle, so any advices would be appreciated. I'm going in to discover more about this position this week, and I'll gladly share with yall also, if anyone's interested. And for now, I hope people will chime in and cast some light. TIA.

Hi, I graduated from that program. If you haven't dropped that class, feel free to shoot me an email. It's my screen name + hotmail.

Thanks v/r. Actually I'm in an ADN program and can't be considered by the armed forces, as I was told. But if I could do it, yes Navy would be my top choice.

Thank you for clearing that up for me. Comments and corrections are welcome as always.

Thanks folks. Yes, there are inconsistent information being posted by me and I do apologize for that. I went to Navy's website and I'm just gonna cut and paste it to you guys here: Navy Nurse Candidate Program-Receive up to $34,000 for nursing school, including: An initial grant of $10,000 Plus a stipend of $1,000 per month for up to 24 months source: http://www.navy.com/healthcareopportunities/nursecorps/#nursing-students Having pasted that, the navy scholarship might be as competitive as the other 2 branches. But I can't say for sure, since it's just online info. Honda's TV ad offers $299 per month for the new Accord but the local dealership offers $199 per month. So it really boils down to what the individual is finally offered by the recruiter. Hustle hustle ladies and boys. If my recruiter ever gets back to me, I'll share it with you guys.

Great thread. To my understanding, Navy offers $10,000 sign on bonus and Airforce $20,000 to 30,000 depends if you have loans to repay or not. With either branch of service you will not enter combat, although to the field facility is possible. AF boasts a shorter eligibility requirement, at 20 years, comparing to Navy's 30 years. In fact, after reading http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/generalpay/a/retirementpay.htm, here's the comparison I can generate for you: Army & AF: accession bonus $20-30K, retire after 20 years. Navy: accession bonus $10k, retire after 30 years. Just presenting some facts. In no way I'm knocking the Navy. As a matter of the fact, if I were to do it, Navy would be my top choic.

Thank you for the info. Still decent comparing to the Navy sign-on bonus, which is $10,000 according to its website. Another perk to AF is its shorter retirement requirement, at 20 years.

For those who work in the hospitals, in your or peers' experience, are there instances where hospitals (particular in medically underserved areas like L.A.) financially sponsor aspiring nurses to go to med school?

State of California is offering a "Health Professions Scholarship" which gives a student up to $8k and in exchange for a 2 yr service in Medically Underserved Area (MUAs- which is pretty much everywhere in CA). I like the money, but don't think it's enough to justify for a 2yr lock down right after nursing school. Some might argue it's a good starter track, straight from school to a solid job. Any input is welcome. thanks in advance, Mike.

Dear May: I'm gonna give it a try here. Plz let me know if my rationale is floating to the right diretion. Sorry I'm such a noob. To answer your question, the alkalosis needs to be compensated and restored back to near normal range. For #5, The increased paco2 (47) is d/t hypoventilation. The increased PaCo2 level helps to lower the slightly higher bicarb level in the body. For #6, Acer said this one is a mixed disorder so maybe the following explanation doesn't even apply. But here it goes: "compensated resp. alkalosis" is caused by the hyperventilation and results in decreased level of paCo2 = 32. The body tries to comensate or add more alkaline by having the kidney to hold onto bicarbonate a lil longer. The ROME was really an effective short cut. With that, I prolly don't even need to look what's being compensated and still would be able to score. But that's not how I am. It bugs me not knowing the causes or the rationale behind it. So please bear with me if my attempts didn't make sense.

Eric thank you for the answering my op and helping me with the technical question. It must have taken me longer than 5 minutes to realize that I needed to edit, AEB Brian's replied PM to me: "Registered members have a 5 minute window to perform an edit." But thank you again Eric.

Meth, May, and Acer, thank you guys so much. I'm going offline to study what you guys have explained. You guys are awesome thanks again!

You are right :redbeathe... I posted it too quickly and still can't find "edit thread" botton.

Correction: It was Co2 but not PaCo2 in the original questions. Trying to find the edit thread botton.....

Hi all, based on a concept by Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio, RN, PHD, I find her story of "The Land of the ABG" a very effective learning tool to interpret the ABG values. However I'm having problem with the following 2 questions: #5. pH 7.44, PaCo2 47, HCo3 28. #6. pH 7.42, PaCo2 32, HCo3 27. Since the pH is within normal range of 7.35 - 7.45, I understand these 2 are "compensated." I also understand these two are Alkalosis, based upon the increasing hco3 and ph values. However I'm having difficulty with the "metabolic or respiratory" part. For question #5: co2 47 is greater than the normal range of 35 - 45 (could be a resp.) hco3 28 is greater than the normal range of 22 - 26 (which means it can also be a met.) For question #6: co2 32 is less than 35 - 45 (could be a resp.) hco3 27 is more than the 22 - 26 (could be a met also??!) Help! Am I missing some tool set to distinguish these ambiguity? TIA, Mike.